An instrument to monitorize enviromental conditions on the Martian surface
REMS is an instrument composed of six sensors: wind direction and magnitude, pressure, relative humidity, ground temperature, air temperature and ultraviolet radiation. It will record all those parameters every hour and has the capability to programm additional acquisition periods in which some specific environmental conditions are expected. [more]
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March 2012. Halfway on his journey to Mars, environmental station, REMS is alive. The North American Space Agency (NASA) has reported that tests of the instruments planned to be implemented in mid-journey are correct and all instruments of MSL, including REMS, are operational and in good condition.[more] |
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November 2011.Last day Nov. 26 was successfully launched, from Cape Canaveral, the rover Curiosity (MSL). NASA's mission will touch down on the red planet in August 2012. Curiosity holds REMS station among their instruments. [more] |
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October 2011. Astrobiology Center tests REMS instrument in the desert of Los Monegros (Aragon, Spain).[more] |
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November 2010. The CAB has provided the weather station that will use NASA's next mission to Mars [more] |
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